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[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
@Harly People don't want to read through 165 pages, I understand that. I can't really say anything negative or else users will get pissed off and say I'm impatient, ungrateful, unwilling to help, etc etc etc. That's why sometimes I just disappear and leave you guys to help each other and as a whole those who have used this to root tend to help those who are having problems pretty well.

@kjjb it's in the first post,not in the PDF. I'm not actually the one who wrote that PDF and I haven't read through it but it seems to help people. You need to read through the entire first post carefully and the pdf if you're having troubles to get the most out of things.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] kjjb0204:
Yeah, I would be one of those people frustrated with searching 165 pages in one thread. Sorry about that.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] kjjb0204:
Yep, see that now. Installed htc sync, but gave me some error on the mxml... something or other that install failed. I might just wait for unrevoked. I had no issues rooting my inc or dpro and this is just scaring me that I'm going to brick my new tb. I've never been good at following directions.....
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
I cant do anything about an htc error :/ if you want to wait thats up to you but youd be the first person to brick if you somehow managed to.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] kjjb0204:
Yeah, I'm going to delete everything and start over. I can't resist rooting. Anyhow, thank you so much for all of your responses and work on this. Very much appreciated!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
hope that htc install goes ok for you. once thats setup properly you should be good to go.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] neojason:
does anybody having cwr issue with v3.0.2.4 and not formatting and does not restore?

i got a dead phone...damm....
[Thunderbolt Android Development] JAYNO20:
Is there anyway of getting the updated baseband version after rooting?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
@neo its a known bug if you can manage to get into a rom and run rom manager I explained how to fix it a couple pages back.

Yes you can you just need to wait for someone to release it so its safe to flash and not lose root.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] brianmcbride99:
Step 2 problem

hi, i'll admit this may be somewhere in the past 165 other pages but i honestly haven't found it yet skimming. I can get past step 1 successfully, TB reboots, i skip all the google setup...turn usb debugging back on, unplug replug phone in, hit step 2...wait 20 secs(per dialog in rooter)...it then pushes 2-3 files and errors out with ERROR! contact dbzfanatic...

I've gone through this iteration about 8 times now as the pdf instructions state to kill the rooter process and start back at step 2.

win 7 64 bit prof - virtual machine through vmware

64 bit drivers ARE installed(or else i couldn't get past step 1 right?)

thanks for any help from anyone :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Did you try without the 64bit files? I said in the first post only use them if it doesn't work without them. There are people who have 64bit windows who don't use the 64bit files and still have it work fine so you need to try without them first. I bet it also continues with the dots after it gives the error doesn't it?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] brianmcbride99:
I will give it a shot without the 64 bit drivers. thank you for the response :) I must have missed/misinterpreted the 64 bit drivers message you made originally. and yes, the dots do continue.....i let them linger for about 45 mins and then gave up ;)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] brianmcbride99:
32 bit worked great i'm now rooted! thank you so much!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
You're quite welcome :) glad it was something easy.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] cobra-1299:
After reading all of the post I did what you have been telling everybody else. I read the the instruction and did everthing you said to do and it worked perfect. Thank You for all the hard work. :D
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Glad it worked, I have been saying the same things for a while now haven't I? :P
[Thunderbolt Android Development] egeorgia:
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been trying for so many days. (Not with your method) and with yours I finally did it. Only thing I had to do was kill the rooter and restart a few times. Everything else was flawless! Even without the 64 bit file on a 64 bit Windows 7 System.

It just feels so good to have control again :-) Thanks!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Don't forget to vote if you haven't already :P oh and where's my $5? haha kidding, kidding :P
[Thunderbolt Android Development] alonsou:
Anyone reading this who has successfully rooted, I'm stuck at step #2 with the following message:

ERROR! Contact dbzfanatic at XDA or post in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1005292. DO NOT REBOOT.

If this error comes up before a hash is displayed you're fine.Choose the bootloader option and press POWER. Allow the firmware to flash by pressing VOLUME UP. When finished please reboot into Android as you will have S-OFF.

What should I do now?...

I'm sorry if this has been answer before, but its kind of hard to go thru 167 pages of info, I read the first 10 and I couldn't find anything...now I'm worry because it says not to reboot Please help!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] alphablackzer0:
One Shot One Kill

Click on Step 2.

*NOTE*

If you click on step 2 and it immediately comes up with an Error, before

pushing any files. Kill the Rooter.exe process, and restart rooter.exe.

Then click on Step 2 again. It will rediscover your device and then

start pushing the files.

After flashing hbooteng.nb0 your phone will reboot into the system boot

menu again. This time at the top is should say.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] alonsou:
ok.. so I ended up closing Rooter and click on step 2 one more time, this time it went thru as planned I think?..it rebooted and I did all the steps listed on the instructions, after the reboot from recovery, I click on step 3 and I got the message "You now have a fully rooted Thunderbolt with S-OFF Congratulations"

Well I do have SU Apk and Rom manager, but I have tried to get root access in different ways and all of them failed, using drocap, terminal, and no luck.

What should I do now? seems like after all I did not got a root, even that Rooter says I'm fully rooted?

Please any help ?

Edit: Nevermind, I just ran step 3 one more time and this time the phone did reboot itself, now I do have root access.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] alphablackzer0:
Once the phone restarts you should have root. Run clockwork mod (ROM Manager) in our

programs go towards the bottom and click on fix permissions. It should

pop up asking for permission if rooting is correctly done.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] mojonation1487:
I am so lost. Why is there TWO files to download. And ones almost a gig. While the other is tiny. Are there actual instructions on this? I'm not gonna read through 167 pages of posts.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] mojonation1487:
Ok i don't know what i'm doing wrong as there is no clear instructions. I downloaded the megaupload file. Extracted to a folder. Ran the rooter file. Starting pushing then just closed out. How do I know if anything was pushed and if I should start over or not? This whole thing doesn't make any sense tome.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] HolyGrail:
People are sleep. :) Go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1005292&page=70

Scroll down to the last post (TheMorlince), instructions are in that pdf file.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ScoobarSTI:
Download the zip extract all files to the desktop plug phone in turn on USB debugging and charge only mode. Then follow the instructions it takes awhile to flash the files over. Just read the screen carefully and you'll be fine. Make sure wifi is off as well. If after step three you have superuser and rommanager in your app drawer but don't have root access just redo step three.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Cubs2008:
Worked great for me. My Thunderbolt is now rooted with no issues (I tested it with Titanium Backup and Adfree and they both run great.)

The issues I ran into during the process:

- I had to shut down and restart Rooter.exe a couple of times. Once before Step 2 and once before Step 3.

- I had to run Step 3 a couple of times before the phone rebooted.

- I had to use the 64 bit rar to load the adb driver since I'm running Windows 7 x64.

- I also downloaded and used the updated Rooter.exe provided in the OP.

I did follow the pdf that is linked in the OP and it does a good job of walking you through the process.

I would advise to make sure you download the linked rooted rar (858 MB) , the updated rooter.exe (provided in the first post) and the 64 bit adb driver if you run a 64 bit windows os. Extract the contents of the rooted rar to a folder and extract the updated rooter.exe and copy it into the rooted rar folder (you'll be replacing an existing rooter.exe.) If you're running Vista or 7 run the rooter.exe as administrator and right click on it and select "unblock" at the bottom of the properties box. This will make it much easier to ensure the rooter does its job.

The rooter does all the work too. When you launch it you'll see three buttons (Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3.) Just follow the instructions in the pdf and make sure the step is completed before moving on. It may appear a step has completed but after Steps 1 and 2 if the phone doesn't reboot into the loader then it did NOT complete the step. You'll want to close the rooter box and reopen it and rerun the step before moving on. If the phone doesn't reboot after step 3 make sure to run step 3 again until it does.

Hope this helps...it's a lot easier than it looks. Kudos to dbz and anyone else that put this together for us.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] mojonation1487:
Got it rooted but can't get rom manager to work. Won't get superuser privileges. I've repeated step 3 like a thousand times. This root method is borked
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Did you re-enable usb debugging after step 2 and did step 3 ever reboot your phone? Also are you using the updated exe or the one in the rar file?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] corenojoe:
had a bit of a scare.

my back piece wouldnt go on right it was broken so I unrooted and got it replaced, then after rooting again I (very stupidly) tried to flash a backup from my sd card through rom manager. *dont do that! lol

I should have known that it wouldnt format the system correctly to use the backup from a different phone. Anyways I just went into hboot and let it flash the PG05IMG.zip again (basically redoing step 2) then redid step 3 and Im good to go.

Got my adrenaline goin for a sec tho lol, just thought you all might appreciate the story cuz we probably all had an "uh-oh!" moment like that every now and again.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] KidJoe:
Sorry, I tried reading ALL of this thread, I really did, but with 1600+ posts, I might have miss this...

I've successfully followed the process and rooted, but I have a question about something...

if the battery goes dead, when I plug the phone in, it powers up in to clockwork recovery. Should it?

If no, any idea how to fix?

I don't recall if it happend from a normal power off/on, or if its only if the battery had died and I plugged in.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Yeah its in here but its burried. its a CWM quirk but not a big deal. As for "fixing" it, I'm not sure.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jasek78:
hmm, something isn't right, finally got through all 3 steps just the way its suposed to but when i try to run titanium or rom manager it tells me i'm not rooted.... booting it up into bootloader it says i has s-off though.....any ideas?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
You need to rerun step3 another time or two.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jasek78:
kk will try it, let you know how it goes... ran it 3 more times and it was golden, titanium works now ty, i had almost given up
[Thunderbolt Android Development] droid fetish:
Cant find the PG05IMG.zip after running this process successfully(THANKS) did the process delete it or am I missing it? I dont want it coming back to haunt me in the future. Thanks again for your hard work db and thank you for your patience which I am sure has been put to the test through all of this.:D
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
It should be on your sdcard, not in any folders. The process deletes it during step 2 but not 3 so its there probably. If you get a thing asking you to update when you reboot choose no and find it otherwise you're ok
[Thunderbolt Android Development] droid fetish:
Thanks for the quick reply, I went into CWM and cant find it anywhere, I must have erased it at some point and just dont remember.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jawonder:
It's not in CWM it's right in the area on your SD Card where you find CWM just scroll up and down and if it's the you'll see it .
[Thunderbolt Android Development] droid fetish:
I appreciate it. Thats what I meant, when I booted into recovery I cant find the file anywhere when I chose install from sd- then choose zip, it aint there. I just thought I was missing it somewhere, I dont remember deleting it, Ill just remember to never choose update if it does come up. Right now I have Das Bamf and the 1.76GHZ kernel installed and everything is running great. I probably wont be making any other big changes. BTW everyone here has been fantastic about helping out THANKS
[Thunderbolt Android Development] rab669:
How long should it take after step 1 pushes the files until it reboots into the boot screen. I have tried 3 times and it successfully pushes the files, bring sup a new screen stating to Chose the Bootload Option and press Power but the phone never reboots???
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
It lists your device right? Also I just updated the first post with something to try that might fix that issue.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] droid fetish:
Kill the program unplug the phone restart then plug phone in again, basically just redo the step, you may have to rerun a step more than once but it will take, and theres a pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] rab669:
yes. it finds the device and pushes all of the files but never reboots. The only software I have installed before tying the root process is the HTC Sync software
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Alright try what's in the first post and if it doesn't work try what droid fetish suggested, its what I usually tell people to do :p
[Thunderbolt Android Development] rab669:
where can I find what Droid Fetish recommends. Did a search and did not find it. Also I see there is a zip file that I downloaded from megaupload and you also have a update zip attached to yoour first post. Do i need to also get the update.zip to run this
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Yes you need the rar file and the zip file. Also his post is right above my last post.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] rab669:
step 1 completes without having the updated rooter.exe. any issues? I just downloaded it and replaced the one in the original .rar file. Ready for step 2
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Just go through steps 2 and 3 and follow the several hundred posts that tell you how to fix issues.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] gokudre:
Ok i cant get this to work. I get everything done fine. it says i have successfully rooted.. yet.. i havent. Rom manger tells me im not rooted therefore cant fix permissions and titanium backup wont work either.... i try to boot into recovery mode but i cant. it keeps trying to install rom from rooting. wont even let me slide down to rocovery mode.. what gives?

***UPDATE******

got it. uninstall htc sync. i read that somewhere. i uninstalled. and rebooted. then redid rooter.exe and did step 3 only. now im rooted. thx
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Did your phone restart after step 3? It's been said, a lot that you need to 1) have your phone restart automatically after step 3 and 2) sometimes rerun step 3 a time or two. You also need to remove the PG05IMG.zip file from your sdcard if you want to use hboot, but rebooting into recovery through adb or RomManager works just fine.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] gokudre:
yes it rebooted.. and it still wasnt proper. I figured out the need to remove the zip file myself. i assume it looks for a rom file when loading. if it finds one it trys to flash it. Uninstalling htc sync and redoing step 3 worked perfectly for me.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] DroidTh3ory:
Hell of a job on this!!! It worked like a champ. The hardest part of this whole process is getting the .RAR file to download and actually finish. LOL

:)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Yeah sorry but hey it was worth it right? :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
when i try to do this for my friend, at the end of step one and I reboot and let bootloader do its thing it says main version is older! update fail! press power to reboot?? any ideas on what to do?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
YOU don't reboot I've said it before if it doesn't reboot on its own it didn't work redo step 1, read the first post there's something there to try to get step 1 to work (sseveral things actually)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] bmwhartgeM3:
so once I dl and run the new firmware on the phone do I start from step 2 or do I run step one again?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ScoobarSTI:
Did step one complete? in the Rooter program?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] gokudre:
happened t ome too. i simply redid all the steps again worked the second time
[Thunderbolt Android Development] SirBindy:
Having a serious problem here. Got through step one, and started step two but had to step out for a few minutes. I came back and the phone is black screened. Buttons do nothing. Unplugging usb and connecting it again does nothing. Battery pull did nothing.

What the hell happened

EDIT: notification LED is just blinking orange.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ckochinsky125:
battery died most likely or is very low
[Thunderbolt Android Development] SirBindy:
Which I don't understand considering it was plugged in via usb the entire time.

EDIT: Okay, you were right. I apologize for my freakout :P
[Thunderbolt Android Development] boardindude:
Im helping my friend root his Thunderbolt. I got to step 2, but then it says "ERROR! Contact dbzfanatic at XDA or post in the forum. 2. DO NOT REBOOT. If this error comes up before a hash is displayed you're fine. Choose the bootloader option and press POWER. Allow the firmware to flash by pressing VOLUME UP. When finished please reboot into Android as you will S-OFF.

Again, after rebooting turn USB Debugging back on and unplug it in again and press step three. Please wait until this program tells you that you are finished." Then its starts a continuing row of periods that just keep going and going. Can anyone help me?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Kill it and restart step 2
[Thunderbolt Android Development] boardindude:
Tried that a couple tines, just does the same thing. Here's a video of it.

Edit: sorry the video doesn't upload for some reason.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Just keep at it, it'll work, also read the first post for settings to try.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] boardindude:
Ok thanks for quick replies, will let u know how it goes.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] SirBindy:
Wont complete step 3 like it's explained in the pdf directions. Says it's supposed to push some commands and then restart the phone. The directions say to kill rooter.exe and try step 3 again if it doesn't reboot the phone. I've done this at least 4 times. I'll try to do step 3 manually.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Uninstall htc sync and run step 3, that seems to work most of the time.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] SirBindy:
Sync was not installed in the first place. I got it though. 10th time is the charm :P
[Thunderbolt Android Development] McLabia:
Only problem I had with this was one that I created due to not paying attention. Worked great! If youre having ANY issues, theyre all cleared up in the magical PDF! Thanks again for this, and thanks for making it not a hassle to unroot for warranty servicing!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] MicroChip:
I just wanted to add that I successfully used this to root my Thunderbolt. I did have to do each step a few times, and I did have to refer to this thread a few times, but ultimately it worked fine without any scares or hiccups.

Thanks!

MC
[Thunderbolt Android Development] calebv2:
for some reason i have root but when i go into rom manager it says that i don't have the proper permissions please help
[Thunderbolt Android Development] dbzfanatic:
Redo step 3. If your phone didn't reboot it didn't work. If you didn't re-enable usb debugging do so before trying step 3
[Thunderbolt Android Development] McLabia:
Sounds like you made the same noob mistake that I did.

"Click on Step 3.

Phone is going to sit there for a min while it pushes some commands via

adb. Wait for it to finish.

The phone should restart after that is complete, if it doesn’t, close

rooter.exe. Restart the program and click on step 3 again. The phone

should restart.

Once the phone restarts you should have root. Run clockwork mod in our

programs go towards the bottom and click on fix permissions. It should

pop up asking for permission if rooting is correctly done.

"

That should fix your issue.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] htowngator:
Wow so virus scan found the Artemis trojan hidden in rooter.exe unless that was intentional... what's going on here?

edit: specifically "Artemis!C741A2A47BD9"

Is McAfee wrong?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] htowngator:
So apparently it can be a "false positive" from McAfee but regardless this work computer won't let me do anything with that file (it promptly removes it).

I guess I'll have to give it a shot at home.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] McLabia:
Your first mistake is using McAfee. I would reccomend you uninstall McAfee and install AVG free version. Its something that Ive trusted for the last eight years and its NEVER let me down. If youre talking about on your phone, I would also suggest AVG. It will pick up the superuser program, but its a false positive.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] htowngator:
Its corporate McAfee and can't remove it.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] McLabia:
Im sorry to hear that. McAfee in general sucks. I would take it as a false positive.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] corenojoe:
Yea McAfee is no good, use avg, its never failed me.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] doriean:
Need Help Plz

Ok So I Followed The Steps The Program Said I Was Succesfull And I Even HaveClockwork Mod Recovery Installed And The Su App Shows Up But When I Go To Run Setcpu It Says No Root...Any Help Plz Did I Root My Phone Or Not..
[Thunderbolt Android Development] McLabia:
Scroll down a couple of my posts and you will see the answer.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] doriean:
Update

Ok So I Went With McLabia's Suggestion And Plugged My Phone Back In And Redid Step 3...And Well Everythings Great Now...Thanks So Much To Everyone And All Your Hard Work..And To You McLabia You Are My Hero...

My Htc Thunderbolt Is Rooted...Woot